Aha! Thanks for the info David - I wouldn't want to build on top of a feature that may be deprecated in the near future.
Brian On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 8:30 PM, David Lang <[email protected]> wrote: > It's probably better to use JSON instead of array. Array is a very early > thing and there is some talk of phasing it out rather than needing to > support multiple ways of passing groups of messages. > > David Lang > > > On Fri, 4 Jan 2013, Brian Knox wrote: > > Aha! I think in this case array passing may be what I need. Thanks! >> >> Brian >> On 1/4/2013 4:00 AM, Rainer Gerhards wrote: >> >>> Quick hint: you need to set the param passing mode inside the plugin. >>> Not the template type specifies what you get, but the plugin asks the >>> engine. What you look for is JSON passing mode (or maybe array passing). >>> Ommongodb should help you, else ping me early next week. >>> >>> Rainer >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: >>>> [email protected].**com<[email protected]>[mailto: >>>> rsyslog- >>>> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Knox >>>> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 2:22 PM >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> Subject: Re: [rsyslog] working with list templates >>>> >>>> Hi Radu! Thanks for the link, but I already know how to work with list >>>> templates from a conf perspective. I'm looking for good examples of >>>> accessing that data from code in an output plugin. Currently my plugin >>>> simply does this in CODESTARTdoAction: >>>> >>>> CHKiRet(writeHiredis(ppString[**0], pData)); >>>> >>>> This passes the entire output from the template as a string to redis. >>>> This works ok when I want to construct redis commands from templates >>>> using individual properties straight to hiredis's redisAppendCommand >>>> function, such as: >>>> >>>> "HINCR progcount %programname% 1" >>>> >>>> But it does not work when I want to send whole messages to redis >>>> (whitespace in the syslog message be interpreted as delimiters in the >>>> command, causing errors). >>>> >>>> hiredis has another function however, redisAppendCommandArgv, that is >>>> variatic. In order to use this I would like to construct a list using >>>> the list templates, and then access each individual member of the list >>>> from the output plugin code so I can construct the array to pass to >>>> redisAppendCommandArgv. So, let's say I construct the following >>>> template: >>>> >>>> template(name="redisPushQueue" type="list") { >>>> constant(value="LPUSH") >>>> constant(value="queue_key") >>>> property(name="msg") >>>> } >>>> >>>> From the output plugin code, how do I then access each member of this >>>> list individually with the new template code? >>>> >>>> Make sense? >>>> >>>> Brian >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> 1) Can >>>> On 1/3/2013 7:59 AM, Radu Gheorghe wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hello Brian, >>>>> >>>>> Just to make sure we're not missing the obvious: >>>>> http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/**rsyslog_conf_templates.html<http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/rsyslog_conf_templates.html> >>>>> >>>>> Besides that, there are a couple of examples here: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> 2013/1/3 Brian Knox <[email protected]> >>>>> >>>>> I've been working on some improvements for the omhiredis output >>>>>> >>>>> plugin this >>>> >>>>> week. I think I've come up with a better way of combining templates >>>>>> >>>>> with >>>> >>>>> redis command formatting. In order to do this, I need to, given a >>>>>> >>>>> list >>>> >>>>> style template, get the number of elements in the list and the >>>>>> >>>>> length of >>>> >>>>> each element. >>>>>> >>>>>> I've only worked with string templates (from a plugin perspective) >>>>>> >>>>> with my >>>> >>>>> output plugins so far. Is there a good example somewhere for >>>>>> >>>>> dealing with >>>> >>>>> list templates? >>>>>> >>>>>> On other fronts, I now omhiredis working with batch dequeue in >>>>>> >>>>> conjunction >>>> >>>>> with hiredis' pipeline commands. In local tests this let me push >>>>>> >>>>> around >>>> >>>>> 250,000 redis commands per second to a redis instance (I was getting >>>>>> >>>>> around >>>> >>>>> 50k commands of the same type with the same test before the >>>>>> >>>>> changes). >>>> >>>>> Rainer - I'm hoping to wrap up this next round of improvements in a >>>>>> >>>>> few >>>> >>>>> days and get a patch your way! >>>>>> >>>>>> Brian >>>>>> ______________________________**_________________ >>>>>> rsyslog mailing list >>>>>> http://lists.adiscon.net/**mailman/listinfo/rsyslog<http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog> >>>>>> http://www.rsyslog.com/**professional-services/<http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/> >>>>>> What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards >>>>>> NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a >>>>>> >>>>> myriad >>>> >>>>> of sites beyond our control. 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